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Ready to start planning your next family trip? A new guidebook series, The Dog Lover's Companion (Avalon Travel Publishing, $18 to $22), offers the inside scoop on where dogs are most welcome across the U.S. Dog-friendly restaurants, shops and hotels are listed, along with such amenities as dog runs, parks and beaches. The books also rate standard tourist attractions for doggie value: the Lincoln Memorial gets four paws for the photo ops by the "stunning" reflecting pool...
Shah said the media effort is essential to making sure readers notice the series’ revamping efforts for 2003, as Let’s Go has always updated each guidebook on a yearly basis...
...source in town for information about Harvard’s courses, a student-initiated website called “CriticalMass.” But the new website shouldn’t be seen as a competitor. It’s a good complement to the existing guidebook, clearly intended to fill a different role. If students take full advantage of “CriticalMass,” the new site has the potential to provide the candid personal student feedback that the CUE guide cannot. More importantly, this new site could help identify particularly awful teachers mid-course, much quicker...
...Costa Rica, from Thailand to Tasmania, are building what may be the only example of a truly global community. Nobody has an accurate way of guessing the size of the backpacker market, but the growth of the Lonely Planet brand offers somewhat of a proxy. The first Lonely Planet guidebook was stapled together on an Australian kitchen table in the early 1970s; 30 years later, the company publishes more than 600 titles...
...rivers of Vietnam and climbed mountains (albeit small ones) in India. I’ve endured multi-course repasts of food so inundated with chiles that most of my fellow diners surrendered in pain. I’ve fearlessly sought out the incendiary spices of street food, despite repeated guidebook warnings. And not only have I survived, but I’ve enjoyed it. Nothing has been too hot for me—until now. After circumnavigating the globe, it was a restaurant right here in Cambridge that finally felled...